El Greco

Label
Rhino
Release date
24 Nov 1998
Running length
10 tracks
Running time
72:42

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 El Greco: Movement I 10:02 974
2 El Greco: Movement II 5:18 1,001
3 El Greco: Movement III 6:46 941
4 El Greco: Movement IV 6:24 2,024
5 El Greco: Movement IX 11:51 820
6 El Greco: Movement V 4:25 2,420
7 El Greco: Movement VI 7:52 2,152
8 El Greco: Movement VII 3:19 855
9 El Greco: Movement VIII 9:43 814
10 El Greco: Movement X (Epilogue) 7:02 537

About this album

El Greco is a 1998 classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (born March 29, 1943). The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Dominikos Theotokópoulos, 1541 – 1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco.

This album is an expansion of an earlier album by Vangelis, Foros Timis Ston Greco. That album had been released in 1995, in a limited edition. For this general release, the track order was rearranged, three new tracks were added, and the album title was changed.

Vangelis composed and arranged the album, and performed all the instruments, accompanied by a choir conducted by Ivan Cassar. The music is in a Byzantine style yet sounding contemporary due to his use of synthesizers. Soprano Montserrat Caballé and tenor Konstantinos Paliatsaras make guest appearances on one movement each.

The album reached #66 in France and #74 in Germany.
More about this album…

Other releases

Listening Trend

13,836listeners all time
196,290scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Explore more

Listen to, buy or share

Buy